1994 D Lincoln Memorial Cent Extra 4

Hard to tell but the D might be doubled...The extra 4 just looks like die marks or gas lines

The D is damaged and can't be doubled in any sort of way that would make the coin valuable.

I would have to have a really close look at this coin. The shape of the "gouge" is just too good.

It's hard to tell from the picture. I can't think of a way for the image of a 4 to get into that spot other than perhaps what is known as a counterclash.

When I have more time, I'll explain unless someone gets to it before I do.

Thanks,
Bill

Looks like plating separation. If you look at the overall area, there are these lines that flow NW-SE. The appearance to me like gas under the plating.

Bill, good explaination but I believe that the material that causes the counterclash is something other then clad fragments and such. It would have to be something much harder then that. If it was coin material then counterclashes would be much more common as they would happen pretty much after every double struck coin happened. Die steel is so hard that I doubt that a thin cupro-nickel alloy fragment could impart a design into it. When my son and I first found the counterclash we discovered I had no idea what a counterclash was. During the process of first asking around trying figure out what it was and then submitting it for authentication and listing I learned a few things about them. What I was told by those I was talking with is that things like steel fragments, possibly breaking off the machinery, is the most likely culprit. Of Course I could be wrong but that is just what I gathered during the process.

Including a pic to show what the counterclash looks like.
1969s WCLR-001..

<<<I am not sure a steel fragment would pick up coin details and then add them to a die unless the steel fragment was struck like a coin?>>>

Yes that is what most likely happens, the steel fragment gets into the coining chamber and is struck then stays in, shifts and is struck again.

Maybe if Mike Diamond sees this post and replies he can explain it better. He is one of the guys that helped me with the counterclash. Also John W. Bordner who inspected one of the coin wrote an article that was printed in the March 6 2001 issue of Numismatic News in which he states "Counter clashes are quite different from die clashes because they are caused by foreign material and not direct hits from the dies striking each other. Since the dies are quite hard the foreign material would almost have to be hard enough to receive a blow from the dies and return the impression to the dies". In the article he goes on to state that the foreign material could be something that got stuck on a planchet and then imported on it into the coining chamber or a piece that broke off the machinery.
But I cant fathom coin material being hard enough to impress the image on the dies. If it was then counter clashes should be as common or more so then double struck coins as most every time a double struck (ones that the designs overlap) happened so should a counter clash.

Hope John doesn't mind my using the qoute from the article.

i will try and see what I can do for you. preciate it